{"product_id":"states-of-the-body-produced-by-love-9781739371746","title":"States of the Body Produced by Love","description":"A modern mystical journey through love - a many-headed snake twisting through devotion, sacrifice and the dream of returning home. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her visionary debut, Nisha Ramayya conjures an opalescent world by way of Tantric ritual and myth. Thousand-petalled lotuses bloom inside skulls, goddesses with dirty feet charm honeybees, strains of jazz standards bleed into anti-national anthems. \u003ci\u003eStates of the Body Produced By Love\u003c\/i\u003e weaves essays, poetry and images together to offer fierce meditations on diasporic identity, language and resistance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom grief to bliss, this book explores the many states of the body seized by love in an incantation that never leaves its hold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRamayya, Nisha:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eNisha Ramayya\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Glasgow, and is now based in London. She is a poet and Lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London. Her pamphlets include *Notes on Sanskrit*, *Correspondences*, and *In Me the Juncture*, as well as *Threads*, co-authored with Sandeep Parmar and Bhanu Kapil. *States of the Body Produced by Love* is her first full-length book, and her second, *Fantasia* is published by Granta in 2024.","brand":"Spiral House Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51635346702610,"sku":"9781739371746","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_00127fff-48f5-45b8-bdb1-065033d54c6e.jpg?v=1759229786","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/states-of-the-body-produced-by-love-9781739371746","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}